“This leads us to the odd conclusion that strict control is something that matters a lot on relatively useless projects and much less on useful projects. It suggests that the more you focus on control, the more likely you’re working on a project that’s striving to deliver something of relatively minor value.”

“I’m advocating a management approach, one that might well steer the team toward agile methods, at least toward the incremental aspects of the agile school.”

“Consistency and predictability are still desirable, but they haven’t ever been the most important things.”

“Software development is and always will be somewhat experimental. The actual software construction isn’t necessarily experimental, but its conception is. And this is where our focus ought to be. It’s where our focus always ought to have been.”